Lefebvre Jean François^[1]

1670 - Abt 1744  (73 years)

• Name	Lefebvre Jean François
  Birth	23 Aug 1670	Sillery, Canada, Nouvelle-France   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1744	Pabos, Canada, Nouvelle-France   [1]
  Notes	[[Category:Sillery, Canada, Nouvelle-France]] [[Category:Native American Interpreters]] == Biography ==Jean-François was born on 23 Aug 1670 and baptised at Silliery on 27 Aug 1670. He was the son of [[Lefebvre-125|Thomas Lefebvre]] and [[Pelletier-209|Geneviève Pelletier]]. The godparents were [[Pelletier-44|Joannes Pelletier]] and [[Goupil-1|Francisca Goupille]].Le Registre de Sillery. Introduction, presentations et notes, de Leo-Paul Hebert. p.322. Presses de l'Universite de Quebec. PDF Edition. ''Die 27 Augusti, P[ater] Carolus Albanel3 baptizavit Joannem Franciscum 4 dierum ex patre Thoma Lefebvre et ex matre Genovefa Peletier conjugibus. Patrinus fuit Joannes Pelletier, matrina Francisca Goupille.'' LEFEBVRE DE BELLEFEUILLE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, seigneur; b. probably 27 Aug. 1670 at Sillery (Que.), son of Thomas Lefebvre* and Geneviève Pelletier (Peltier); d. c. 1744 at Pabos in the Gaspé region (Que.). Jean-François Lefebvre de Bellefeuille settled in Newfoundland around the beginning of the 18th century and operated a small dry-cod fishing establishment near Plaisance (Placentia). In 1706 he was reported as employing six fishermen and two boys. He married, probably in 1703 or 1704, Anne Baudry, daughter of another local fisherman; they had three sons and two daughters. Lefebvre de Bellefeuille left Plaisance after the English took control in 1713 and probably went to Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). In 1729 his brother Pierre bought the seigneury of Grand-Pabos from the heirs of René Hubert. Pierre Lefebvre de Bellefeuille appears never to have resided on the seigneury and it was Jean-François who, in effect, became the seigneur. Grand-Pabos was located a few leagues south of Île Percée. Lefebvre de Bellefeuille was the only seigneur who established himself permanently on a Gaspé seigneury during the French régime. With his sons Georges and François* he developed a successful dry-cod fishery without any government assistance and virtually independent of government control. In 1730 he apparently had at his fishery about 30 men whom he armed and deployed to prevent a crew of Basque fishermen from landing on the beach at Pabos where they had traditionally dried their fish. Subsequently Lefebvre de Bellefeuille allowed visiting fishermen to establish their drying operations on his beaches if they paid a fee, sometimes a year in advance, based on the number of shallops they brought. There were complaints that Lefebvre de Bellefeuille and his sons tried to extend their authority beyond the limits of their seigneury; the government warned them but it had little effective control in this area. In fact, in 1737 the government relinquished some of its control by appointing Georges Lefebvre de Bellefeuille as subdelegate of the intendant for the Gaspé coast. After his death Lefebvre de Bellefeuille’s sons carried on the fishery until it was wiped out by Wolfe David LeeDavid Lee, “LEFEBVRE DE BELLEFEUILLE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS,Laval, 2003–, (Accessed November 20, 2014) [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lefebvre_de_bellefeuille_jean_francois_3E.html English] or [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lefebvre_de_bellefeuille_jean_francois_3F.html Français]. AN, Col., B, 74, f.17; 76, f.35; C11C, 5, pp.50ff. (PAC transcripts); F2B, 11; Marine, B3, 415, ff.31–37. ANQ, Greffe de J.-N. Pinguet de Vaucour, 22 oct. 1729; NF, Ord. int., XXVI, 3v–4; XXVIII, 26 août 1740. PRO, CO 194/5, f.355. “Recensement de Terre-Neuve et de Plaisance, 1704” (SGCF Mémoires). P.-G. Roy, Inv. concessions, IV, 127–29; Inv. ord. int., II, 150, 292. La Morandière, Hist. de la pêche française de la morue, II, 601–3. A. C. de Léry Macdonald, “La famille Le Febure de Bellefeuille,” Revue canadienne, 2e sér., XX (1884), 168–76, 235–47, 291–302. General Bibliography © 1974–2014 University of Toronto/Université Laval Censuses: Stephen A. White, Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes. (Moncton, N.-B.: Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999), p. 1037-1038 *1704 Plaisance (Pointe-Verte): Belle Feuille, femme, 2 pêcheurs, 1 mousse pr grave *1705 Plaisance (Pointe-Verte): Bellefeuille, avec sa femme*1706 Plaisance (Pointe-Verte): Bellefeuille, femme, 1 garçon au dessous de 12 ans, 6 pêcheurs, 2 garçons pêcheurs *1711 Plaisance (Pointe-Verte): Bellefeuille, 5 pêcheurs*1715 Louisbourg: Sr Jean lefevre dit Bellefeuille, femme, 3 fils et 2 filles de 10 ans à 1 an, 11 pêcheurs et graviers*1716 Louisbourg (Grande-Grève): Bellefeuille, ancien habitant de Plaisance, sans femme, 5 enfants, 10 hommes compagnons*1717 Louisbourg (Grande-Grève): bellefeuille, 2 fils, 2 filles, 10 hommes *ca 1719 Louisbourg: bellefeuille, 4 enfants 3 domestiques == Sources ==
  Person ID	I61690	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Lefebvre Thomas,   b. 16 Mar 1645, Rouen, Normandie, France d. Bef 1715, Acadie, Nouvelle-France (Age < 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Pelletier Geneviève,   b. 06 Apr 1646, Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France d. 16 Dec 1717, Québec, Canada, Nouvelle-France (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F27422	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Baudry Anne,   b. Abt 1690   d. Bef 1716 (Age < 25 years)
  Marriage	1704  [1]
  Family ID	F27430	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

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